Post Chimera Post 1 – Friday night
Posted on Sep 5, 2010 12:31:10 AM
So. Anyone who has read this blog for a year, or gone back and had a nosy through the archives, knows that one of the highlights of the year for a larper is Chimera, the annual NZ Roleplaying Convention.
It was last weekend. It’s taken me all week to recover. 48 hours. 25 larps to choose from. 6 costumes to assemble/make/beg/borrow/steal. Makeup and prosthetics to mess around with. YAY!
So. Much. Fun. In fact, I was so fortunate in my game picks and character allocations that I can’t even pick a favourite game.
I ran around being an extremely dumb orc wizard on Friday night. “All orcs who are stealthy say ‘Aye’!” All orcs shout AAAAAYE at the top of their lungs. I made a dreadlocked and braided black wig and did my face and hands up all green, very simple. I wore black laceup pants and a patchwork leather vest (yes, made by me) and made a giant foam and latex shepherd’s crook. I failed to cast a single spell or fight in any battles. We were very good at making noise and running away. 
That’s me on the right hand end. I point it out since my husband took one look at that photo and said “Is that YOU?!?” Haha. Mission accomplished.
Since this is a facepainting site and not just my personal ramble space, I do try to focus on that aspect of my hobby here. Here are two undead folk who I also helped out a bit with their makeup.
Man it was muddy out there though. We all came back reasonably brown and soggy, whatever we’d looked like going out!